Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-06-04
w. C. T. u. COLUMN.
Edited and Compiled by the Women's
Christian Temperance Union.
THE sLIME-P
Deep and Unsuitable They Cry "Give,
Give"
Their Victims our Brothers and Sons.

crying, 9aUe, ge0e, more, more, anu II
never says, 81 have enough"
Bring together in imagination the
two hundred thousand slime-pits of
the United States, and combine them
into one great, broad, deep slime-pit.
Locate it in some broad vale, and on
rising ground all around it gather the
twelve million homes, and the sixty
million people, and the forty thous-
and million dollars worth OF proper
ty that belong to our country. See
the bubbling slime-pit waiting for its
victims, see the airy shadows of dew
lis dancing on its sluggish waves.
Hear the hoarse cultural cry of the
inanimate monster: Give, give,
give" Stand on yonder height and
watch as the streams of victims and
offerings pour in from the north and
the south and the east and the west.
Up to the brink of that great slime
pit there comes procession of one
hundred wagons, each loaded with a
ton of silver dollars into the pit
they are dumped down they sink,
and the monster smacks its lips and
cries: "Give me more" Or if you
change those dollars into neat little
thousand dollar homes, two of them
90 into the pit every minute night
and day through the year, and as the
timber and brick are sucked into
the vortex, with them go the COM
fort and home-joy and happiness OF
five times that number of persons.
Millions upon millions of bushels of
barley and corn that might give life
to starving millions, pour by steady
stream into the pit, and it sinks into
the slime, yea, it becomes slime.
And does it not cry enough? No,
still it cries; "Give, give!" And
what more shall we give? o men,
bring yourAEmarriage VOWS, bring
your blighted faith, bring your SOL
emn promise to God, bring all sense
of manly honor, all noble ambitions,
and cast them in. o women, bring
your virtue, bring your childhood
memories. bring your love of home,
bring your hopes of heaven, and cast
them in. o fathers and mothers,
bring parental love, bring your chill
dren's food and clothing, bring their
toys andlbooks,s bring their smiles
and laughter, bring their kisses, and
all their childish joys, and cast them
in. And we children, bring your IA
theirs dying blessing, and your moth
er's Bible, bring all the prayers Of
gedly ancestors and.Christian friends,
bring all the bright promises of your
early life, bring your purity of heart,
and all your noble resolves, and all
your bright dreams of bliss, bring
every one, and cast them in. Hus-
bands and wives, parents and chill.
dren-millions Of them--surround
the vast slime-pit and cast these
things in. Andi the monster not sat.
isfied yet? No. Hell and destruc.
ton are never full. With ghoulish
glee it smacks its lips and cries
Give me more!" And what more
can we give? Human victims? Yes
Aye, give me the bodies and souls Of
men, innocent or guilty, it makes nc
difference. Pile in the dead drunk.
ards. | can swallow two hundred
every day, the more suicides among
them the better. Bring the fallen
women by cart loads. Drag the
innocent ones by the hair. / will
drown their screams. Cast in the
dead bodies of murdered men anC
women. Let some drunken engineer
bring me every now and then the
holocaust of some burning train OF
sinking ship. And bring the chill
dren, the children, the brightest anC
fairest. / am the worlds Moloch
| am its muddy Gauges. Shower
them upon me, and shut your ears
while | hush their gurgling cries be
meath my Shiny surface. Bring me
your laws and your law officers
Bring me your senator's and repre-
sentatives. Bring me your politica
parties, and papers, and platforms
bring me the government; bring me
this far land, | want it all. | have
room for all, and to spare, for hel
and destruction yawn beneath me
and your Bible says that they are
never full.
What shall do? IansWer, coveI
them all over securely and strongly
with Prohibition planks and plat
forms, with Prohibition laws anc
amendments, over which shall stanC
guard Prohibition officers who are
backed by Prohibition host.
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